I think the geography part is confusing. The way I understand it, Prussia was a loosely knit bunch of countries, ruled by a king and at one time quite large. stretched far into Poland. I read they acquired land by marrying into the kingdoms and also war. Germany didn't become a country until after the turn of the 18th century. Does anyone know the date? And the date that Prussia started? And even now, they are divided by names like Hesse, ect, which is sort of like our states or provinces and then farther divided called a Kreis,or district, and then again into a town or hamlet. We can all use history lessons when looking for our ancesters. I love this list. marge -------------------------------------------------- From: "juliasgenes" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 7:49 PM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [G-P-L] Place in Germany > Hi, Lorri ~ > Check JewishGen Communities Database at > http://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/Search.asp (you may have heard of it > as "ShetelSeeker", the prior name that means the equivalent of "hometown". > A Bergfeld search comes out as today's Barchfeld, Hessen-Nassau, Preußen. > Since I know nothing about German geography (Prussia was near Germany, > wasn't it? .^_^.), I'll leave you to follow the links from the search. And > to any comments other Listees care to make. In addition to this list's > webpage & forum, there's a Rootsweb list called Prussia-Roots that's very > helpful with these kinds of questions, though I haven't been there in at > least 1+ years. > http://www.germanyroots.comhttp://www.germanyroots.com/phpBB3/http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/DEU/PRUSSIA-ROOTS.html > Good luck, Julia > > --- On Wed, 1/13/10, Lorri <[email protected]> wrote: > > ...the place he lived was BERGFELD would anyone have any Idea where this > is?... > Lorri > > > > > > For all the latest News, please visit our Homepage: > http://www.germanyroots.com > > Please visit and participate in our new forum > http://www.germanyroots.com/phpBB3/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi Marge, The German Empire or "Deutsches Reich" started in 1871. For more information see Wikepedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussia For a map of Prussia in the German Empire: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prussiamap.gif Bobbi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marge" To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 11:05 AM Subject: Re: [G-P-L] Place in Germany I think the geography part is confusing. The way I understand it, Prussia was a loosely knit bunch of countries, ruled by a king and at one time quite large. stretched far into Poland. I read they acquired land by marrying into the kingdoms and also war. Germany didn't become a country until after the turn of the 18th century. Does anyone know the date? And the date that Prussia started? And even now, they are divided by names like Hesse, ect, which is sort of like our states or provinces and then farther divided called a Kreis,or district, and then again into a town or hamlet. We can all use history lessons when looking for our ancesters. I love this list. marge

18 January 1871 was the start of the German Empire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_Reich Prussia came into existence in 1701 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Prussia Marge wrote: > I think the geography part is confusing. The way I understand it, Prussia > was a loosely knit bunch of countries, ruled by a king and at one time quite > large. stretched far into Poland. I read they acquired land by marrying > into the kingdoms and also war. Germany didn't become a country until after > the turn of the 18th century. Does anyone know the date? And the date that > Prussia started? And even now, they are divided by names like Hesse, ect, > which is sort of like our states or provinces and then farther divided > called a Kreis,or district, and then again into a town or hamlet. We can > all use history lessons when looking for our ancesters. I love this list. > marge > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "juliasgenes" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 7:49 PM > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [G-P-L] Place in Germany > > >> Hi, Lorri ~ >> Check JewishGen Communities Database at >> http://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/Search.asp (you may have heard of it >> as "ShetelSeeker", the prior name that means the equivalent of "hometown". >> A Bergfeld search comes out as today's Barchfeld, Hessen-Nassau, Preußen. >> Since I know nothing about German geography (Prussia was near Germany, >> wasn't it? .^_^.), I'll leave you to follow the links from the search. And >> to any comments other Listees care to make. In addition to this list's >> webpage & forum, there's a Rootsweb list called Prussia-Roots that's very >> helpful with these kinds of questions, though I haven't been there in at >> least 1+ years. >> http://www.germanyroots.comhttp://www.germanyroots.com/phpBB3/http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/DEU/PRUSSIA-ROOTS.html >> Good luck, Julia >> >> --- On Wed, 1/13/10, Lorri <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> ...the place he lived was BERGFELD would anyone have any Idea where this >> is?... >> Lorri >> >> >> >> >> >> For all the latest News, please visit our Homepage: >> http://www.germanyroots.com >> >> Please visit and participate in our new forum >> http://www.germanyroots.com/phpBB3/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > For all the latest News, please visit our Homepage: http://www.germanyroots.com > > Please visit and participate in our new forum > http://www.germanyroots.com/phpBB3/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- Dave Researching Surnames Marshall, Broemsen, Blaetner, Pugh, Schlicher, Kennedy, Harmison Located in Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and ??? Dave Marshall N8OAY [email protected] N8OAY's Railfan Help Desk http://www.railfanswelcome.com